Ante says Digg will have to “dial back some of its expansion plans.” Says Adelson: “Now I am pressured to keep costs reasonable and focus more on the top-line revenue, which we really haven’t done ever.” After its last round of funding Digg said it would double headcount before December 2009. Maybe not now.

Insert ads into its RSS feeds.

Ante says Digg is “on the verge” of improving its search and sell ads against search results.

Digg is “within a month of closing a deal with a mobile ad provider to sell more ads on cell phones,”says Ante.

Buy Digg clones to expand internationally. “There are Digg clones around the world in every country,” says Adelson. “I could go into those markets and clean up those sites. If I needed more capital to do a deal, I could probably do it.”